I need to create a document with a title page, some introduction pages and a lot of tables. Those tables needs to be on landscape pages. So I need to switch the orientation on a certain page.
Also the borders should be very narrow, because I need a lot of space for the tables and documentation.
I found several solutions but non of them are working really good. Also the fancy header should continue on the landscape pages but should get the width of the page.
Here come one example:
\documentclass[a4paper,headsepline,footsepline]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[pdftex]{color}
\usepackage{typearea}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\setlength{\voffset}{-0.9in}
\setlength{\hoffset}{-0.9in}
\setlength{\textheight}{9.5in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{7in}
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{1in}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{LOGO}
\lhead{CargoSoft Dokumentation}
\rfoot{Page \thepage}
\definecolor{cargosoft}{RGB}{1,107,181}
\newcommand{\myRule}[3][black]{\textcolor{#1}{\rule{#2}{#3}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\centering
LOGO
{\scshape\LARGE Company name \par}
\vspace{1.5cm}
\myRule[cargosoft]{8cm}{0.4pt} \par
\vspace{0.5cm}
{\huge\bfseries document name\par}
\vspace{0.5cm}
\myRule[cargosoft]{8cm}{0.4pt} \par
\vspace{2cm}
\vfill
{\large \today\par}
\end{titlepage}
First page content comes here not in landscape
\KOMAoption{paper}{landscape}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{LOGO}
\lhead{Dokumentation Landscape pages}
\rfoot{Page \thepage}
\areaset{\textwidth}{\textheight}
\recalctypearea
content on landscape pages
\end{document}
The next thing I tried comes from this post How to switch from portrait to landscape page orientation? The result is, that the page is in landscape, but the fancy header is not. Also the content is horizontal centered.
\documentclass[a4paper,headsepline,footsepline]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage[pdftex]{color}
\usepackage[margin=0.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{typearea}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\rhead{LOGO}
\lhead{CargoSoft Dokumentation}
\rfoot{Page \thepage}
\definecolor{cargosoft}{RGB}{1,107,181}
\newcommand{\myRule}[3][black]{\textcolor{#1}{\rule{#2}{#3}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\centering
LOGO
{\scshape\LARGE Company name \par}
\vspace{1.5cm}
\myRule[cargosoft]{8cm}{0.4pt} \par
\vspace{0.5cm}
{\huge\bfseries document name\par}
\vspace{0.5cm}
\myRule[cargosoft]{8cm}{0.4pt} \par
\vspace{2cm}
\vfill
{\large \today\par}
\end{titlepage}
First page content comes here not in landscape
\begin{landscape}
content on landscape pages
\end{landscape}
\end{document}
Does anyone has a good working solution for me?
Thanks a lot,
Hauke
Best Answer
Here is a solution with
typearea
:You can use the optional paramerter
DIV=<value>
to control the space for the text area.For the header/footer a new pagestyle needs to be defined. It has to contain
\headwidth=\textwidth
to set the correct width for the landscape pages.Before switching to landscape, a new page must be started. Without it, the new settings may affect the previous page.
And in order to make the viewer show the pages in landscape,
\pdfpageheight
and\pdfpagewidht
must be set.typearea
doesn't give you complete control over the margins. It set the page layout according to rules about the ratio of margins. If you need more control,geometry
can be used. But it doesn't support switching to landscape mid document. However, there is a solution for this here. It's downside is, that it may stop working after an update ofgeometry
.Remark: in your first example you used the
typearea
package and then set up some lengths for the page layout manually, and in you second example you loaded firstgeometry
and thentypearea
. Both is not a good idea. In the second casetypearea
overwrites all settings done withgeometry
.